Baku, Azerbaijan, Nov. 23
By Fatih Karimov - Trend: Euro-4 gasoline supply at Tehran gas stations has decreased despite pledge of officials to expand the supply of premium gasoline in the city, the Tasnim News Agency reported on November 23.
Oil officials had announced that Euro-4 gasoline supply will be increased in Tehran and will start in six other cities by the end of the current Iranian calendar year.
Alireza Zeighami, the advisor to the Iranian oil minister, said that Euro-4 gasoline supply will reach 52 million liters per day by the end of the current year.
In the 4th Iranian calendar month of Tir (June 22-July 22), about 21 gas stations across Tehran sold Euro-4 gasoline. The figure increased to 32 stations in the 6th calendar month of Shahrivar (ended on September 22), but decreased to 2 stations in the 7th calendar month of Mehr (ended on October 22).
On October 1, Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh said that Iran will import five to seven million litres of gasoline per day in the second half of the current Iranian calendar year (ends March 20, 2014.
"We have not ordered gasoline import from a certain company or country. We simply need to import up to seven million litres of gasoline to increase the country's reserves," the Mehr News Agency quoted Zanganeh as saying.
Zanganeh announced on September 10 that Iran needs to import gasoline to meet its domestic demands.
"Iran's gasoline production capacity will rise by up to seven million litres by the end of the current Iranian calendar year (March 20, 2014), but even then the country's gasoline output would not meet domestic demands," the ISNA News Agency quoted Zanganeh as saying.